Re: The Great Module Debate :) [was Re: solutions to scripting
Re: The Great Module Debate :) [was Re: solutions to scripting
- Subject: Re: The Great Module Debate :) [was Re: solutions to scripting
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:17:32 +0000
has wrote on Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:48:27 +0000:
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Nigel Garvey wrote a rather ripping response...
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[Hi Nigel, fancy seeing you here...;]
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Hope you'll forgive me here, but I've decided not to write a direct
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response to your post.
That's OK. Nor I to your "indirect" one. :-) I've no intention of getting
into an argument. I was just pointing out that the use of modular code
shouldn't be a dogma - especially where loaded libraries are concerned -
and taking you to task for your suggestion that people who want to learn
or understand some technique in AppleScript should told instead to use
such-and-such a handler from such-and-such a library. It's like telling
someone who wants to learn the piano to buy a CD instead. "There's no
point in doing all that practice when somebody else has already done it."
My own view is that "re-inventing the wheel" is the best way to come up
with a better wheel, or even of coming up with something else entirely.
Many scripters, however, are understandably only concerned with getting
their scripts from A to B before some deadine. I hope there's room for
all sorts on this list.
NG